摘要
本文描述了后现代叙事的基本特征,指出这些特征与其它模仿叙事之间的差异,勾划出解读这些作品所必需的理论框架。本文首先对后现代叙事的区别性特征给予广义的阐述,然后讨论了在传统叙事与后现代叙事中作者、隐含作者以及叙述者之间的关系,甄别了后现代策略的特点:多重叙述者、第二人称叙述、各种形式的不可能叙述等。文章最后探讨了叙事时间、情节和进程,辨别了一些后现代技巧,如非常规或非自然的故事、不可能的时间序列、解叙述、非传统的结尾等。为了说明这些概念,文章以撒尔曼.拉什迪的小说《午夜的孩子》和其他后现代文本作为案例进行了分析。
In this article I describe some basic features of postmodern narrative,note its differences from other,mimetic types of narrative,and identify the kind of theoretical framework necessary to comprehend such works. I begin with a general account of the distinctive nature of postmodern narrative,and then discuss the relations among authors,implied authors,and narrators in traditional and postmodern narratives. I identify characteristic postmodern strategies,including the use of multiple kinds of narrators,second-person narration,and various forms of impossible narration. I then move on to time,plot,and progression,and again identify a number of distinctive postmodern strategies,such as the use of unusual or unnatural stories,impossible chronologies,denarration,and nontraditional endings. Throughout the essay I provide examples from Salman Rushdie＇s Midnight＇s Children and other postmodern texts to illustrate these conceptions.
出处
《外国文学研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2010年第4期24-31,共8页
Foreign Literature Studies
关键词
叙述
叙述者
后现代主义
进程
故事
时间
narration narrator postmodernism progression story time
